Combination waste receptacle and bag dispenser



9, 1955 w. K.. LATVALA ETAL 2,725,141

COMBINATION WASTE RECEPTACLE AND BAG DISPENSER Filed April I, 1952 2Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTORS W4/N0 K. 447%444 Tuues J44 mews/v,

BY WZ WfiJ/MMZ Jim ATTORNEYS Nov. 29, 1955 w. K. LATVALA EI'AL 2,725,141

COMBINATION WASTE RECEPTACLE AND BAG DISPENSER Filed April 1, 1952 2Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTORS,

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ATTORNEYS United States Patent COMBINATION WASTE RECEPTACLE AND BAGDISPENSER Waino K. Latvala, Ojai, and Tuure Jalkanen, Santa Barbara,Calif.

Application April 1, 1952, Serial No. 279,852 3 Claims. (Cl. 206-57)This invention relates to waste baskets, and more particularly to animproved combination waste basket and waste bag dispenser.

The main object of the invention is to provide a novel and improvedcombination waste basket and bag dispenser of the type wherein the wastebasket is provided with a bag or a lining receptacle in which the refuseis deposited, the bag or lining being removable when it becomes filled,and a new bag or lining being then positioned to receive additionalrefuse.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved combinationwaste basket and waste bag dispenser which is simple in construction,which is inexpen sive to manufacture, and which is arranged to contain asubstantial quantity of waste bags in reserve.

A still further object of the invention is to provide an improvedcombination waste receptacle and waste bag dispenser which is neat inappearance, which is compact in size, and which is sturdy inconstruction.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will become apparentfrom the following description and claims, and from the accompanyingdrawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an improved combination wastereceptacle and bag dispenser constructed in accordance with the presentinvention, shown set up for use.

Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical cross sectional view taken on the line22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the receptacle of Figure 1 shown in unfoldedposition. I

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical cross sec tional detailview taken through the top portion of one of the bags employed in thereceptacle of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the upper portion of acombination waste receptacle and bag dispenser according to the presentinvention showing a modified retaining means for the bags.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of the top portion of afurther modified form of receptacle according to the present inventionand waste bag associated therewith.

Figure 7 is a perspective fragmentary view of the top portion of a stillfurther modification of receptacle according to the present invention.

Figure 8 is a view similar to Figure 7 but showing the bag-holding bandof the receptacle arranged in operative position.

Figure 9 is a perspective view similar to Figure 6 but showing a stillfurther modified form of the present invention.

Figure 10 is a fragmentary perspective view of the top portion of astill further modified form of receptacle according to the presentinvention.

Figure 11 is a fragmentary perspective view of the top portion ofanother modification of the receptacle of the present invention.

Referring to the drawings, and more particularly to Figures 1 through 4,11 designates one form of improved ice waste basket constructed inaccordance with the present invention, said waste basket comprising asheet of relatively rigid foldable material, such as cardboard or thelike, arranged and shaped to define the blank shown in Figure 3. Theblank, designated at 12 comprises a body of cardboard including thecentral rectangular back or rear wall panel 13, the side wings or panels14, 14 having the bottom tabs 15, 15, the top panel 16 having the side,hook-shaped tabs 17, 17, the bottom panel 18 formed with the parallelslits 19, 19 to receive the tabs 15, 15, and the front wall panel 20having the side tabs 21, 21 shaped to be lockingly received intongue-defining slits 22, 22 formed in the side panels 14, 14. As shownin Figure 3, the side panels 14, 14 are reduced in width at 23, 23 todefine narrow side wall elements 24, 24 at the upper portions of theside panels, the side wall elements being formed with the parallelslots'25, 25 to lockingly receive the hooked tabs 17, 17 of the toppanel 16, and the upper portion of the back panel 13 being formed withan attaching means or the horizontal parallel slots 26, 26 as well asbeing slit to define a retaining member, such as the U-shaped bail 27 atthe intermediate portion of the back panel 13. The receptacle 11 isformed by folding the blank 12 on the dotted lines shown in Figure 3 tothe configuration shown in Figure 1, the top panel 16 being secured inposition by the locking engagement of the hooked tabs 17, 17 through theslits 25, 25, as shown in Figure l, the bottom panel 18 being secured bythe engagement of the respective tabs 15, 15 through the slots 19, 19,said tabs being disposed in overlapping relationship, as shown in Figure2, and by the engagement of the head portions 28, 28 of the side tabs21, 21 in the narrow portions of the apertures defined by the slits 22in side panels 14, 14 as is clearly shown in Figure 1. From Figure. 1 itwill be thus apparent that a container is defined which has a rearhousing portion including a top panel 16 and which has an open toppedportion com municating with said rear housing portion.

Severally designated 29 are superimposed collapsible paper bags whichare arranged in the rear housing portion of the receptacle, the upperpart of one of the major walls of each bag being formed with a generallyU-shaped slit 30, as shown in Figure 4, defining a fastening elementdepending tongue 31. The other major wall of each bag 29 is formed withparallel horizontal slits 32, 32 opposing and substantially at the samelevel as the tongue 31 of the bag.- In the rear housing portion of thereceptacle, the bags are arranged with the tongues 31 thereof engagedthrough the parallel slits 32 of the next rearwardly adjacent bag 29 sothat the bags are releasably fastened together, the rearmost bag havingits tongue 31 engaged through the parallel slits 26, 26 of the rearpanel 13 of the receptacle. The intermediate portions of the collapsedbags 29 are retained in the rear housing portion of the receptacle bybeing engaged through the U-shaped bail element 27, which is disposedaround the intermediate portions of the collapsed bags, as shown inFigure 2, and exerts a compressive force thereon due to the resiliencyof the cardboard material.

In using the device, the forwardmost bag is disengaged from theretaining member 27 and is expanded to fill the forward portion of thereceptacle, as shown in Figure 2, so that refuse may be placed in theopen bag 29, the top of the bag being exposed, as shown in Figure 1.When the bag has become filled, it is detached from the remaining bagsand removed from the receptacle, the top of the filled bag beingpreferably closed by engaging its tongue. element 31 through itsopposing parallel slits 32, 32. The bag may be locked in closedcondition by bending the tongue element 31 upwardly, said tongue elementbeing preferably provided with an embedded wire insert 33 arrangedparallel to the marginal portions of the tongue element, as'showninFigure 4 and serving'to reinforce said tongue element and torender said tongue element stiif enough to lock the bag in closedposition. When the filled bag has been removed from the receptacle, the

next bag is-disengaged from the retaiinng element-27 and is openedto-the position shown 'in Figures 1' and 2.

In the form of the inventionshown in Figurei-the rear-wall panel'ofthere'ceptacle, shown at13', is formed with a'retaining element35-definedby a generally key hole-shaped slit 34' defining a headedtongue 35: The bags; designated'at 29,.have inverted T-shaped apertures36 'through which the headed tongue 35 is engageable to the head-portionof the tongue 45 is receivable. The

collapsible bags, shown. at 49, are formed' at their upper portions wtihthe' opposed horizontal slots 50 through which the tongue 45 isengageable,the bags'bein'g locked in-the'rear portion of the receptacleby the engagement of the head of tongue 45 through the T-shapedslot 46in the manner shown in Figure 6. It will be understood that the tongue45extendsthrough the slots 50of the collapsed bags in the rear housingportion of the receptacle and said bags are thussecured in the rearhousing portionof the receptacle until a new bag is needed, at whichtime thehead'portion of the tongue 45 is disengaged from the T-shapedslot 46, allowing a new bag to be opened, the head of the tongue" beingthen reinserted through the slot 46to' loclo the bags inthe'rear housingportion'of the receptacle.

In the formof the inventionshown in Figures 7 and 8, the rear panel andside panels'of the rear housingportion of the receptacle'are formed withthe parallel slits 511, 51 defining a retaining'm'ember in. the form of.a horizontal bail 52 which may be folded forwardly to the position shownin Figur'e ii to' act as means for. retaining a group ofcollapsed'pa'per bags in the rear'housing portion of the receptacle; InFigures 7 and 8', the rear panel ofv the receptacle i's designated atefl, and the side panels thereof aredesignated at-64, 64.

Iii-the modification of the invention shown in. Figure 9,therearhousingportion of the receptacle, designated generally& at 12 hasa rear panel 63 formed with: the spaced horizontal; generallykeyhole-shaped slits 64%64 defining the head'e'dtongues 65, 65 which maybebent to extend forwardly to engage respective T-shaped apertures. 66?,

66 formed in'the upper portions of the maiorwalls of -the ba'gs,shown'at 67-'.

In the form of the invention shown in Figure the top panel of the rearhousing portion of the receptacle,

shown-M 16, isformedwith the downstruck tongue 70 which maybe bentdownwardly to engage the intermediate' portio'n of the top margin of theforwardmost bag in the receptacle to hold the forwardmost bag in thereceptacle in open position, as well as to secure the collapsed bags inthe rear housing portion of the receptacle. The formof the inventionillustrated in Figure 10 performs the: same function as thepreviouslydescribed forms of the invention'except that it is notnecessary to perforate the bags since the tongue element 70 serves asthe retaining means-for holding the upper portions ofthebags relativeto" the top panell fi' whereas the bail 27, shown in Figures 1 to" 4-maybe employedto secure theintermedia'te pop tions oftlie' collapsedbags in the rear'housing portion of the receptacle in the mannerillustrated in Figure 2.

In the modification ofthe invention shown in Figure 11, the rear panelof the receptacle, designated at 73, is formed with slits 72, 72defining reclining L-shaped tongues 71, 71 which may be bent forwardlyto engage over the top margins of paper bags to retain said paper bagsin the rear housing-portion of the receptacle similarly to'thearrangement of Figures 1 to 4, wherein it is again unnecessary toperforatethefbags since the depending portions of the tongues 71 serveas the retaining means to secure the top portions of' the bagsin'th'e'rear housing portion of the receptacle;

While certain specific. embodiments of an improved combination wastereceptacle and waste bag dispenser has been disclosed in'the' foregoingdescription, it will be understood that various modifications within thespirit of the invention may occur to those skilled in the art.Therefore, itis intended thatno limitationsbe placed on the inventionexcept. asdefined by the scope of the appended claims.

What isv claimed is:

1. In a bag dispenser, a container having a rear housing. portionzand. aforward portion communicating with said rear housingportion, saidforward portion having an open top, attachingmeans, a plurality ofcollapsed paper bags in vertically. disposed relation positioned withinsaid container with the innermost one of said bags resting against therear housing portion, the rear side of each of said bags having afastening element, thefastening element,-of. the-innermostbagbeingdetachably connected toth e attachingmeansof said rear wall to securethe bags to said rear wall. and a. retaining member carried by said rearwall and extending, about the intermediate portions of the collapsedvertically disposedbags.

2. In combination, acontainer having a rear housing portion and anopenforward portion communicating with said-rear housing. portion,.tl1erear wall of said container being formedwith a horizontal slit, and aplurality of collapsed paper bagsslitto. define depending tongues attheir. rear sides. and horizontal tongue-receiving slots at theirforward sides,.thetongues of the respective bags being. engaged. intheslots of adjacent bags to releasably secure the bags in adjacency, andthe tongue of the rearmost bag. being engaged inthe horizontal slit ofsaid rear wall to releasably secure the bags to said rear wall.

3. In a bag dispensenacontainer having a rear housing portion and aforward portion communicating with said rear housing portion, saidforward portion having an open'top,-the rear wall ofsaid container beingformed with an attaching means, and a plurality of collapsed paperbagsin vertically disposed relation-positioned with in said containerwith. the innermost: one of said bags resting against. the rear housingportion, the rear side of each of said bags having av fastening element,the fastening elementof: theinnermost bag being detachablyconnectedtothe attachingmeans-ofsaid rear wall to secure the bags'tosaid rear wall.

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